Alan Scrivener Lloyd

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Alan Scrivener Lloyd MC, RFA (October 15, 1888 – August 4, 1916) was a British Royal Field Artillery lieutenant who died during World War I at Ypres. He was born in Birmingham into the Lloyd family. His parents were John Henry Lloyd and Gertrude E. Lloyd. He attended Leighton Park School, where he led the Debating Society and helped run The Leightonian magazine, and he later studied at Trinity College. He worked as a farmer before the war. He married Dorothy Margaret Hewetson on September 1, 1914, and they had one son, David Alan Lloyd, born October 2, 1915. He enlisted on September 29, 1914, joining C Battery, 78th Brigade, 17th Division of the Royal Field Artillery, and was promoted to lieutenant on January 31, 1916. On August 4, 1916, while repairing a telephone wire under shellfire, he was killed. He was posthumously awarded the Military Cross.